Nice Little Games for Nice Little Boys (7.1.9) has a nasty game
called Baste the Bear in which a boy is tied by a rope in a circle marked on
the ground. The other boys hit him with knotted handkerchiefs. His master tries
to touch one of the other boys without letting go of the rope or pulling the bear
out of the ring. If he succeeds, that boy becomes the bear and selects his master.
Alphabet of Sports (7.2.6) has Vulcan's Forge, a game for girls
dressed to the nines. "All seated, the Leader says to one, 'Cyclop, can you
forge?' 'As well as you.'" Mother-May-I appears as The Grand Mufti. Home
for the Holidays (8.1.2) has a consistently underclass point of view throughout
different odes to upper class pursuits: "Cricket: All boys should play cricket -a
fine manly game; It braces the nerves and strengthens the frame." "Lawn
Tennis: and even in these science days there's no one denies ball-playing is an
innocent and healthy exercise. Every one can't get a lawn on which the game to play.
Yet many can enjoyment find in busy, smoky towns."

Kate Greenaway's Book of Games (11.4.1) has as a party game The Stool
of Repentance in which people write what they think of you on slips of paper while
you leave the room. One of them reads these opinions out loud and when the person
guesses correctly who wrote it, the author leaves the room and the fun begins again.
British Sports and Games (15.3.5) has the wicket-keeper intently staring
at the ass of a batsman in an Almodovar moment. Father's Gift (3.2.13)
has a "number of rude boys collected together" who cut off kite strings with
their thumbnails and then when the kite "being thus cut loose, falls at a distance...
some of the ill-bred little villains who have cut her loose" steal it. Strictly
speaking this last is probably not a game but a mischief.